A distinguished logician develops in this book a new method of semantic analysis. After presenting a detailed critical discussion of the traditional method, according to which any expression of language is regarded as a name of one unique entity, Mr. Carnap concludes that the various forms of this method lead to many difficulties and complications. He proposes a new approach which he calls the method of extension and intension. The meaning of any expression is analyzed into two meaning components: the intension, which is apprehended by the understanding of the expression, and the extension, which is determined by empirical investigation. Here is the foundation of a new system of modal logic which philosophers and logicians will find valuable in solving many puzzling problems. Five articles, which serve to clarify the position of the author or modify his earlier views, have been included in the second edition as a Supplement.
TÁRSADALOMTUDOMÁNY (történelem nélkül) / Filozófia kategória termékei
Rudolf Carnap: Meaning and Necessity. A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic
Kiadó:
The University of Chicago Press
Kategóriák:
Nyelv:
Angol
Terjedelem:
258 p.
Kötésmód:
papír
ISBN:
0226093468